What do you want to have on Bushcraft UK?
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Hey Guest, We're having our annual Winter Moot and we'd love you to come. PLEASE LOOK HERE to secure your place and get more information.
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…….. And you don’t have to sign up for it anyway 
I’ve used a talking stick a lot in camps, conferences and other discussions. There is always the option to pass it on without speaking.
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As participation will be by invitation then no one should feel pressured to take part. Many of us, probably the majority are here to read rather than write.
I’ve used a talking stick a lot in camps, conferences and other discussions. There is always the option to pass it on without speaking.
Edited to add:
As participation will be by invitation then no one should feel pressured to take part. Many of us, probably the majority are here to read rather than write.
That has happened to some of my threads unfortunately.
I always hosted pictures on my own web sites but as the servers have been updated so have some of the URLs which breaks the links. I used to try and keep them all up to date but when the sites changed from HTTP to SHTTP it broke all the links.
I have posted so many pictures over the years that going back to update all the URLs would be a massive task now.
This is one thing that wouldn’t have happened if the images were hosted on the site but I can appreciate how much that would have cost Tony over the years.
The only thing I can say is that most of my important threads are repeated as pages on my Ravelore or Ice Raven websites accessible through the link in my signature.
Well it does reduce the forum format to the transience of facebook etc, rather than a useful encyclopedic permanent record.So the alternative you're suggesting is never to have posted the thread at all.
Well we can disagree on that. I would rather a thread was posted and risk pictures being lost rather than it not being posted at all.
Well, depends on who posted it
Remember Rik who used to cuss anyone out ad infinitum if they referred to the Swiss army burner as a Trangia. He ripped me several new ones for constantly doing that. Which made me maybe accidently do it a lot more? Along with everyone else.
Rik was probably banned for a good reason....Well, depends on who posted it
Remember Rik who used to cuss anyone out ad infinitum if they referred to the Swiss army burner as a Trangia. He ripped me several new ones for constantly doing that. Which made me maybe accidently do it a lot more? Along with everyone else.
It annoys me too. Or when people call the swedish military mess kits Trangia.
There is but one Trangia, this one (+the different models):
For most people the name Trangia is just generic like Hoover or a Bic pen.
It’s that sort of pedantry that puts me off posting a lot of my exploits.
Plus I'm generally in the woods or outdoors doing stuff rather than sitting in front of a PC. I own a rather nice laptop but have almost no desire to switch it on unless it’s for work and it’s something I can’t easily do on my phone. I would rather no post than go through the convoluted process of emailing photos to myself then uploading resizing and linking to a forum.
My time and patience is finite. Given the choice of being in the woods wildlife watching, perfecting a skill or trying to fathom the way some IT geek with a spectrum disorder has decided the process of uploading x or y must be is a barrier.
Barriers to inclusion are just that barriers.
Don’t you startIt annoys me too. Or when people call the swedish military mess kits Trangia.
There is but one Trangia, this one (+the different models):
I’m probably one of the worst culprits for not contributing. I’ve been a member for years, check in most days, love listening to everybody, but almost never say hello. I know perfectly well that this forum is essentially a group of friends with like-minded interests, and the tone of it is one of the best things about BCUK, but I seem to have managed to avoid making the connection that it works through the efforts of a small number of you guys and if more of us contribute it works even better.
So…, count me in if we’re going to write more stuff. I’m not as outdoorsy as some, and not as crafty as others, but Bushcraft is all about the fun of knowing we know only a little and having fun figuring it out (except for fire by friction which is some form of self-torture, obviously). Happy to publish my efforts and be damned!
I also promise future posts will also be considerably less sentimental!
So…, count me in if we’re going to write more stuff. I’m not as outdoorsy as some, and not as crafty as others, but Bushcraft is all about the fun of knowing we know only a little and having fun figuring it out (except for fire by friction which is some form of self-torture, obviously). Happy to publish my efforts and be damned!
I also promise future posts will also be considerably less sentimental!
Along a similar line, maybe some people would like to opt in to having their talks at the Bushmoot filmed, and then we could put them out on YouTube across the year. Starts conversation and puts the event on the map.
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